News From The Compost Heap

(Opinion) Suggestion: Disagree with Jason Bunce about when his hair salon should open. Don’t boycott him.

Let’s root for him, and all New Haven entrepreneurs, to succeed. Even when we passionately disagree about how best to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, as we did this week when Bunce and fellow salon owners gathered outside his Skull & Combs establishment on State Street to protest an executive order preventing them from reopening.

Let’s root for Madelaine Fargeorge to win approval to turn an abandoned Fair Haven auto garage into a communal yoga and artists’ studio. That might require getting rid of our city’s zoning board and zoning code. Which would be a blessing; the zoning board, based on bogus reasoning, has twice denied her request for permission to open her business. Let cops and health inspectors protect public safety, and otherwise let people pursue their dreams and visions without arbitrary, self-defeating, counterproductive zoning and design rules and rule-makers standing in their way.

As for those chaotic candidate nominating conventions that took place in cyberspace this week — has anyone confirmed whether or not Rosemary Woods was not mixed up in the confusion?

That conspiracy theory, and the above opinions, are part of the latest edition of the New Have Independent vlog news summary, direct from our assignment desk — otherwise known as my compost heap. Click on the above video to watch it. Click on the comments section below to weigh in,

And click on these links to read stories cited in this commentary:

• Amid Chaos, Dems Endorse Looney
• Winfield Wins 3 Stooges-Style Convention
• Zoners Crush Artist’s Dream Garage
• Salon Owners Decry ​“Dictatorship”